July 19th

I have decided to keep a diary that will document the important events that shape my life. Yesterday I turned 18 and became able to fight with the other soldiers. I have waited six months to find out who I will be fighting with and now I know.

I have been placed in the same regiment as Alucard. He is a hero all over Europe. All of the cadets were competing to be able to fight near him.

It has been three years since the start of the war. We can all remember the beginning, the attacks, millions of deaths, and having to completely change the way we live. The legend goes that Alucard was there at the first battle. He was one of those who discovered how to fight the aliens. I have listened to the stories of the other soldiers, the ones who have fought with him, and those who have heard stories from other countries. His ability in battle seems unparalleled. I say seems to be because I have never actually seen him fight. We have never been allowed to watch battles. This is what worries me most. I am afraid that I will be too scared to move, or will do something else that will embarrass me in front of Alucard.

I have seen him around the camp. There are few people that he actually talks to. From what I can see he has two friends. They are known as Ghiaccio and Tristeza. Nobody knows there real names, likewise with Alucard. They are more social than he is. They tend to talk to the other soldiers. He stays apart from them. Tristeza even said hello to me when I came to join them. She is as beautiful as the stories say.

She amazes me. She was the first woman to fight the aliens. At the start of the war there was a law passed that women could not be on the battlefield to reduce the chance of the aliens capturing them to produce hybrid creatures. There are still very few women who fight. There are none here, but I assume there must be some somewhere. I have heard that she and Ghiaccio are just as fierce in battle as Alucard himself. I don’t understand how someone as lovely as her could be anything like that.

Her hair is long and fair. Her smile is fantastic. I think I may be in love with her. She is about as tall as me, her body seems perfect, to me anyway. I can’t stop thinking about her. The older soldiers laughed at me after I saw her for the first time. ‘You’ve got no chance with her lad’ they all said. I will prove them wrong.

Although Alucard is young the older soldiers all look up to him. It was him who found out how they could be beaten. He was deemed the hero of the first real battle, and his skill with a sword is incredible. Yesterday I watched him practise. I have tried some of his techniques but I couldn’t do them with any power at all. He is amazing. It’s hard to imagine him being the same age as me when all of this started.

After the Aliens attacked our government and that of every other country started to fight back. I have been told that the military positioned itself near to one of the bigger ships. And fired everything they had at her. Every land to air missile was tried and did no damage. There were hundreds of people watching, Alucard included, that day. They watched as our most powerful weapons failed against something that had destroyed everything we had so easily. We heard later that the story was the same everywhere and it wasn’t just the case in this one place.

After the ground troops had failed the air force flew in. They only got off a few shots before thousands of tiny space crafts came out of the larger one and took most of our planes down. The ones that were left made an urgent retreat. As they flew over the spectators the aliens followed. As the Aliens flew closer some of the people began to run. Then out of nowhere a rock flew from the crowd and crashed straight through the front of the alien craft, causing it to crash, destroying it and whatever was in there. People now say this was Alucard, but no one knows for sure. I will ask him one day.

After this we sent messages to other countries. They tried it because it was all they had left. All our combined firepower couldn’t bring down these things, but someone had done it here.

This happened every time one of them came close. After a while they stopped flying away from the bigger ships. We thought they had given up. We didn’t see the bigger ships for about a month. We had started building new villages. We tried to start our lives over in the ruins of our old cities.

Then one day they were back. Smaller ships landed and an army of aliens came out and began to kill and destroy everyone and everything around.

After that we all came here, into the caves, for protection. We’ve been here for three years now.

One day, a couple of months after we moved into the caves, some of the men got bored, they didn’t see why they had to live here, why they couldn’t just be left alone on the surface. They picked up whatever they had, shovel, forks knives etc and ran to the surface. They ran into a village close to the entrance of the caves, where the aliens had settled. The ruins of it are still there. It wasn’t a grand place. Not like you would imagine, aliens being able to build so fast or something. We’ve learned that they are a lot like us. We learned a lot that day.

The men ran into the village and killed the aliens, they hadn’t any defences, or weapons, they were just settling.

This may sound barbaric now but if they hadn’t gone down we wouldn’t have realised that they could be killed. However we did make a huge mistake.

The men went out the next day, with every gun they could find. This time there were about 200 aliens waiting for them. The story goes that Alucard had been stopped from going with them by the older men. So he went anyway. He and his friends grabbed knives and such things and went out after them. When they came out of the caves they saw the men firing at the aliens. Bullets didn’t even leave a scratch. The aliens ran at the men, snarling. Ive heard they’re scary. Even the older soldiers still get scared when they fight, even though they know what’s coming. The men kept firing. The aliens kept coming. As they got closer the aliens started to fire light guns. The guns they had shot light which burned straight through the men it hit. They also had what looked like electrified poles; they gave off an eerie blue light. But they could cut through men like butter. We lost a lot of men that day. Alucard and his friends came out of the caves, brandishing knives, and all the weapons that had been used the previous night. They had loaded them into a cart and they started to push it down the hill. They pushed it right through the melee at the bottom of the hill, crushing some of the aliens beneath the cart wheels. Alucard was the first into the battle. He led by example, ploughing into the aliens with his blades swinging through the air. The aliens started to fall. Guns didn’t work but blades did. The others followed suit. The light guns were countered. That was Tristeza this time. An alien fired at her, she swung one of her blades at it, and the light reflected and ricocheted into another alien. As the aliens began to see that we were winning they retreated. The men cheered, Alucard became a hero.

So we have been fighting them like that for 3 years. We have made new swords, bladed weapons. Basically we’re fighting with weapons that we had only ever heard of in stories. Like bows and arrows, swords, axes etc. As far as we can guess the aliens researched our weapons before they came. However they only researched the ones we used at that time. Because of this they didn’t have any defences for the older weaponry. We owe so much to Alucard. But he won’t acknowledge it. He acts as though everyone hates him. He is quiet and reclusive and only talks to Ghiaccio and Tristeza. I wish I knew what he was really like, like they do.